choke off
Stop the flow
To choke off is to stop or suppress something by cutting off its supply or means of continuation.
You can choke off debate, funding, or economic growth: The new regulations choked off investment in the sector.
The image is of strangling something at its source, preventing it from developing or spreading further.
Suppress or restrain
- smotherDeprive of air
- quashSuppress or nullify
- squelchForcibly silence or suppress
- crushCompress with force
quell · silence · extinguish · snuff out · kill · stamp out · put down · clamp down
stifle
Suppress or restrain
crush · quell · silence · extinguish · snuff out · kill · stamp out · put down · clamp down · shut down
constrict
To squeeze tightly
curtail · diminish · throttle · tighten · constrain · strangle · squeeze · pinch · cramp · compress
block
Solid mass, or impede
stoppage · obstruction · bottleneck · seal · closure · plug · congest · barricade · occlude · stem
- shutdownshut down, power down, deactivate, disable, shutdown